Alex Lifeson didn’t have some grand master plan for all of this: the glossy-looking website, the big rollout of new music, the subsequent parade of interviews. But the dominos just keep tumbling, and he’s going with the flow. With the launch of his new signature Epiphone electric guitar, the Alex Lifeson Les Paul Axcess Standard, […]
In the unlikely crossroads of Japanese courtroom dramas and video games, the Ace Attorney series has carved out a niche for itself that no others have even approached. Over the last 20 years, the series’ combination of unique gameplay (players go out on “investigations” in search of clues before returning to the courtroom to “battle” […]
Kanye West hosted a Donda listening party at Atlanta’s Mercedes-Benz Stadium on Thursday evening and was supposed to release his long-awaited 10th album the following day. But instead, he’s reportedly moved into the venue to finish up the album. According to TMZ, Ye not only created a studio and living quarters inside the stadium, but also hired a […]
Nearly two years after its initial announcement, the Hella Mega Tour finally kicked off last night in Dallas, TX. Green Day played a career-spanning set that appropriately included a cover (something Billie Joe Armstrong became well-accustomed to during the pandemic); however, it wasn’t a song that was featured on his No Fun Mondays album. It was Kiss’s “Rock […]
Taylor Swift’s folklore has been in the world for a year now, and to celebrate she shared the “original version” of the album’s bonus track “The Lakes.” “It’s been one year since we escaped the real world together and imagined ourselves someplace simpler. With tall tall trees and salt air. Where you’re allowed to wear lace nightgowns […]
Alanis Morissette originally announced her Jagged Little Pill tour with Liz Phair and Garbage to celebrate the album’s 25th anniversary, but COVID-19 had other plans. A year later, the tour is finally set to take place; however, with a slightly different lineup. Phair took to Twitter to announce that “unforeseen circumstances” have forced her to drop […]
This week’s edition of 15 Minute Live Performances features rising singer-songwriter AJ Smith. Earlier this year, we got a glimpse into what a day in the life of Smith was like and on top of being wildly entertaining (quite fun), Smith has got some serious musical chops. Don’t believe us? Well, you may take the words of a little band […]
Jimmy Eat World were only two albums into their deal with Capitol Records when they were dropped by the label. After receiving little support for their third album, the now seminal Clarity, the band was hardly surprised when they were notified in August 1999. Most artists in their position would have viewed the rejection as […]
There’s a staggering sentence in the bio that accompanied the sample of singer-songwriter Yola’s sophomore album, Stand For Myself. In discussing a perspective shift since the release of her 2019 Grammy-nominated debut, Walk Through Fire, she says she was persuaded from being her true self, sharing, “There was a little hiatus where I got brainwashed […]
Name Matt Sorum Best known for Playing rock ‘n roll drums…but just as well known for drinkin’ and scallywaggin’!! Musical groups were Guns N’ Roses because that had an open bar tab, The Cult which fit my clothing style of all black all the time, and Velvet Revolver where Scott Weiland turned me on to a […]